Susan Sontag Filmography

Born:: January 16, 1933 in Manhattan, New York, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Susan Rosenblatt
Biography:: Susan Sontag is best known as a prominent philosopher, essayist, and novelist, but she also made a few films. These films embraced the concept of Modernism, and reflected her thoughts on the artistic forms of emotions, spirituality, and aesthetics and the ways in which they relate to modern...Read More

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Absolute Wilson

Actors: Robert Wilson, Suzanne Wilson, David Byrne, Susan Sontag, Philip Glass

Synopsis: Filmmaker Katharina Otto-Bernstein offers a detailed look into the world of avant-garde theater icon Robert Wilson, whose visionary works and collaborations with such varied artists as Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg, and Tom Waits have established him as one of the world's most respected theater Read More

10/27/06
New York Profile: Joe Chaikin's Life in Theater

2003
Les Messagers

Actors: Susan Sontag, Nigel Osborne, Daniel Mermet, Dominque Blain, Nicole Stephane

2003
Bill Moyers' World of Ideas: Susan Sontag

2003
Mauvaise Conduite

Actors: Fidel Castro

Synopsis: Improper Conduct was written and directed by famed Spanish cinematographer Nestor Alemandros. With uncompromising clarity, Alemandros lays bare the cruelties and despotism of Cuba's Castro regime. The director interviews several Cuban expatriates, including writers, filmmakers and political Read More

1984
Zelig

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Garrett M. Brown, Stephanie Farrow, Will Holt

Synopsis: Leonard Zelig, the "human chameleon", is profiled in this mock-documentary. Director Woody Allen appears as Zelig in scenes that purport to be vintage newsreel clips of the 1920s and 1930s, but are actually clever recreations, "aged" and scratched-up Citizen Kane-style by special-effects maestros Joel Hynick Read More

1983
Promised Lands

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Journalist Susan Sontag made this film as a photographic essay on the State of Israel and a recent war which took place there. In it, she meditates on the current (1974) situation of the country and its people and her feelings about Israel and its future. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Brother Carl

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This English-language film was made in Sweden by American essayist Susan Sontag and includes a French and Swedish cast. There is a similar confusion in the storyline. Four artistic adults (two men and two women) have gone to an island at the same time. They are people who have caused one another Read More

1971
Duett For Kannibaler

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriana Asti, Gösta Ekman, Jr., Lars Ekborg, Agneta Ekmanner

Synopsis: A university professor (Gosta Ekman) and his wife (Adriana Asti) hire a young man (Lars Ekborg) to help the professor arrange his papers for publication. The young man comes to live with the couple and leaves his mistress (Agneta Ekmanner) to take the position. The young man discovers very quickly Read More

1969